Improvement in coupon-bonds



UNITED l STATES PATENT ()EEIGE J UDAH TOURO ROBERTSON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN COUPON-BONDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 175,875, dated April 11, 1876-; application filed January 26, 1876. i

To all whom it may concern i Be it known that I, J UDAH TOURO ROBERT- SON, of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coupon Bonds, of which the following is a specification As the coupons of coupon bonds are usually of small size, and the matter required to beprinted upon them is necessarily very much compressed, it has been difficult to give them any characteristic by which they could be particularly distinguished, and the coupons of the entire series attached to a bond have presented a generally uniform appearance, which prevents one coupon being selected or separated from the others without special examination. The raising or increasing the amount of a coupon may be prevented to a certain extent by variations in the general design of the coupons of bonds for different amounts; but the raising of the dates, so that the dates of payment may be anticipated, may be effected by comparatively slight alterations on the face of the coupons themselves.

The object of my invention is to separate the six-months coupons with which bonds are usually printed into separate and distinct classes, which can be readily recognized, so that a mere glance will be sufficient to distinguish a January from a July coupon, for instance; and as this is done in addition to the matter now employed, either on the face or the reverse of the bond, it also furnishes an additional security to the integrity of the bond in the matter of raising the amounts of the coupons as well as in their dates of payment.

To accomplish this object, my invention consists in separating the coupons of a bond into classes, with, for instance, all the January coupons together, and all the July coupons together, and in giving them contrasting tints,

say of red and buff, in addition to the printed.

matter, by which the color of a whole face or reverse of a January coupon is at once distinguished from one of July. These tints may be printed from plates or blocks, andthey may be made uniform or to include a design of figures or words, or a different design for each coupon, indicating the dateor number that will serve as an additional facility for designating and distinguishing the terms and amounts of payment.

therefore imposed over and upon the marks and figures that indicate the amounts of the several coupons, the amount or value of a coupon cannot be raised withoutfirst discharg ing the color and then tinting the material again after the raising or alteration has been efl'ected. The work of the counterfeiter is rendered more difiicult by the necessity for making the alteration on the paper or material that has been tinted and the color discharged, and is still further increased by the additional difliculty of again applying the proper tint to the paper, which has been twice previously manipulated to efi'ect the alteraapplied in either transverse or longitudinal stripes, and either continuously or checkered.

I claim A coupon bond having the coupons divided into classes according to their terms of payment, the classes being tinted with contrasting colors, to facilitate the payment, and to guard against the alteration of the coupons, substantially as described.

J UDAH TOURO ROBERTSON.

Witnesses:

AARON BUTLER, WM. KEMBLE HALL.

As these tints are applied after the bond and coupons are printed, and are 

